One of the benefits of getting older is that you can fully appreciate the beauty of long term friendships. Â Having the kind of friends that indulge your idiosyncrasies to give you what you need time and time again. Â The best of friends are those that say yes before... 
It wasn’t just the clocks that receded last weekend but our summer was also replaced by a gloomy kind of autumn. An autumn with few redeeming features or comfort.  No marvellous mist nor autumnal palette to warm the soul.  Just damp, dank chills and rainfall.... 
It’s often the simplest questions that can baffle me. Like, “So why are you a photographer? ” I buy time with my response. “Great question!” Even now I struggle to answer that question directly, openly and honestly. It feels like... It may 1 April but this is no April fool trick.  I’m back with high falutin blogging ambitions. Although autumn is upon us this summer has broad shoulders and is still warming body and soul.  Whilst I’ve been gone on my blogging sabbatical there has been plenty... As auspicious dates go, 22 February, is mine. The international date line stole that day eight years ago as I shifted my life from the UK to New Zealand.  Three years ago, the Christchurch earthquake shook up my foundations again on 22 February. I probably wouldn’t... 
